Unidentified child (Marda Ro)

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"From a child in a stall along the roadside, I bought a nail file made from the bone of an irisophant."
―Marda Ro, in her journal[1]

A child operated a stall on the side of a road in the oldest settlement on the planet Dantooine.[1] Around 381 BBY,[2] Marda Ro—the Evereni[1] founder of a group of pirates who would eventually become the Nihil[3]—visited the settlement and bought a nail file made from the bone of an irisophant creature from the child. Ro later mentioned them in a message[1] she[4] recorded for her descendants.[1] By 252 BBY,[5] during his youth, Ro's great-great-grandson Marchion Ro had listened to her journal, including the message where the child was mentioned.[4]

Behind the scenes

The child was mentioned in the short story "A Closed Fist Has No Claws," written by Tessa Gratton and published in the 2023 young-adult anthology The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life as a part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project.[1]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" — The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life
  2. ↑ "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" establishes that Marda Ro visited Dantooine around a year after taking possession of the Gaze Electric, an event that Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia dates to 382 BBY. Therefore, Ro's trip to Dantooine must have occurred around 381 BBY.
  3. ↑ YouTube Interview with Tessa Gratton: "A Closed Fist Has No Claws" (TALES OF LIGHT & LIFE) on the Friends of the Force: A Star Wars Podcast YouTube channel (October 6, 2023) (backup link)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 The High Republic: Temptation of the Force
  5. ↑ "The Lie" chapter in The High Republic: Eye of the Storm 1, which includes Shalla Ro's death, features Asgar Ro's ascension to Eye of the Nihil, an event dated to 252 BBY by Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia. As The High Republic: Temptation of the Force establishes she introduced Marchion Ro to Marda Ro's journal, he must have listened to it by that year.